Technology Radar from ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks is one the best consult and technologycompany. The technology radar document describe the trend in termof platform, tools, techniques and language/framework. Thisissue has some talk about testing, bigdata, deployment which mightrelevant to us. I think it might be good for we keep up to date about thetrend in the industry.

"Here are the trends highlighted in this edition:

Mobile- As mobile is rapidly becoming the primary way that people access the internet, this needs to be factored in to new enterprise application strategy, product strategy and implementation - from "mobile first" design all the way through to a new breed of testing tools.

Accessible Analytics - Big Data does not have to equal Big Budgets. A combination of open-source tooling and cloud-based infrastructure provides a more readily accessible analytics and visualization approach.

Simple architectures - Simple continues to gain traction, including both techniques for building and composing applications, as well as infrastructure-based techniques to enable simple deployment, failover and recover.

Reproducible environments - Tools supporting the standardization, set-up automation and coordinated management of development, test and production environments for both internally hosted and public cloud environments feature prominently in this edition of the radar.

Data persistence done right - As NoSQL databases are maturing and gaining acceptance, an understanding of the patterns for use (and abuse) becomes imperative. "